Our skill sets also worked well together, as I offered Turkish-inflected pottery commissions ahead of our departure to pay for the trip. Leah suggested writing “Cappadocian Chronicles” as a way for us to share our learning adventures in real time with those who bought “Cappadocian Commissions” from me.
P.S. The blog posts are organized so that the newest entries are first. So if you want to follow the timeline from conception to completion, scroll to the bottom and begin with the one titled “Welcome!”
Writing ideas come to me (Leah) with an array of personalities. Some are shy. They give the tiniest hint of their existence and then retreat, waiting for me to coax them out with long periods of staring quietly into the middle distance.
Once upon a time, in the reign of Constantine, a girl was born into a Christian family of considerable privilege and wealth. The girl’s father was a well-respected rhetorician. Her grandfather was a martyr.
Bilbo Baggins reminds us that adventures can be nasty, disagreeable things that make you late for dinner, so before we get too far down the road, we should probably eat a good meal.
